[Bug 51871] getxattr() man page wrongly refers to ENOATTR

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51871





--- Comment #2 from Anonymous Emailer <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  2012-12-22 08:19:28 ---
Reply-To: hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 06:13:54PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> --- Comment #1 from Andrew Perepechko <andrew_perepechko@xxxxxxxxxxx>  2012-12-20 18:13:53 ---
> Hm, actually ENODATA is an alias of ENOATTR defined in libattr header.

But that's:

 a) not how normal Posix errno values are supposed to work.  I
 b) limited to using xattr, whichle getxattr is also exposed by glibc
 directly.

This really needs an explanation in the NOTES section, I'll see if I can
come up with someting useful.

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